The Loch Ard Gorge is a beautiful but dramatic attraction on the Great Ocean Roadpart of Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia, about 10 minutes drive west of The Twelve Apostles and about 280km from Melbourne, Australia. The Loch Ard was a clipper ship which was wrecked at Mutton Bird Island just off the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia in 1878. Only 2 of the 54 passengers and crew survived.